Piloting your Life

Terri Mead talks about how she became in an entrepreneur when she started her consulting company in 2005 but only recently acknowledged actually being an entrepreneur.

Why Terri chose to start a company and not just hang a shingle until she found another job 

What Terri did to start the business in terms of creating an LLC, a business plan, a marketing plan, and a professional website and set up the administrative functions and how her prior experience starting at the age of 9 helped her.

Terri talks to Andrea Barrica of O.School about how she is taking her successful startup experience with inDinero ,where she developed her vanilla cred, and is creating a safe place on the internet for women to learn about sex and pleasure and to ask for what they want both inside and outside of the bedroom.

She also served as a venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups, one of the world’s most active, global seed funds.

Terri Mead became an angel investor at the prompting of her buddy Stu’s suggestion and committed to doing it for two years as her ‘PhD.’

She became a member of Sand Hill Angels and the challenge of not fitting the ‘typical profile’  How Terri’s value add is in providing diversity of through and perspective

Monique is an early stage investor raising a $25M fund to invest in intersection of startups led by Black and Latino founders and companies focusing on high-growth categories that will be impacted by coming demographic and economic growth.

Monique and Terri talk about the problem in VC not shifting with the change in demographics and are not keeping up with how the market is changing and that VC circles are no longer reflective of what the US represents. More at http://bit.ly/2wPTbdN

How Terri Mead became one of the 5,000 female helicopter pilots in the world at the age of 38.

Terri developed a love for all things aviation at a young age when her dad would take her flying out of the local airport in Hayward, CA but she knew at the age of 8 that she only wanted to fly helicopters.

It took Terri till age 38 to start her training, but she got her license within 10 months of starting. Find out what obstacles she overcame and how being a pilot enriches her life.

Terri interviews angel investor, author Jason Calacanis to find out how he succeeded despite feeling like the cards were stacked against him. 

While discussing the startup and investing environment in Silicon Valley they explore questions such as:

Is Jason creating an inclusive ecosystem and how has Fraeda Kapor influenced his approach to be intentionally inclusive?

Why does Jason think we have a massive onboarding problem?

Does Jason like being an outsider and has he used it to build his brand?

Mary-Jo Dionne looks at obstacles as opportunities and adventures and looks to find humor and comedy, even in her darkest moments. Terri and Mary-Jo talk about how Mary-Jo’s upbringing influenced the way she looks at life and how she wasn’t intimidated when she met Richard Branson while Terri and Mary-Jo were on Necker Island in June 2017.

Terri Hanson Mead interviews Tyler Lynch on how he went from a successful tech job to minimum-security prison to another successful six figure tech job and an advocate for marginalized people in his community.

Terri introduces the show and talks about creating a podcast to provide a source of inspiration for those struggling to overcome obstacles in their lives, choosing to be the pilots in their own lives. 

Terri talks about why she created the podcast and what to expect, why the show is called Piloting Your Life and shares where to continue the conversation and find more information about the podcast.